UMESH K. MISHRA

UMESH K. MISHRA (F’00) received the Ph.D. degree from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 1984, the M.S. degree from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA in 1980, and the B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India in 1979, all in electrical engineering. He has worked in various laboratory and academic institutions, including Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, CA, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and General Electric, Syracuse, NY, where he has made major contributions to the development of AlInAs-GaInAs HEMTs and HBTs. He is now a Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara. His current research interests are in oxide based III-V electronics and III-V nitride electronics and optoelectronics. He has authored or coauthored over 450 papers in technical journals and conferences and holds nine patents. Dr. Mishra was a corecipient of the Hyland Patent Award given by Hughes Aircraft, and the Young Scientist Award presented at the International Symposium on GaAs and Related Compounds.